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Loose cannons, red herrings and other lost metaphors

A colorful compendium of everyday words and phrases and where they originated.
Print Book, English, 2001, ©1988
Norton pbk. ed View all formats and editions
W.W. Norton, New York, 2001, ©1988
Dictionaries
254 pages ; 21 cm
9780393025781, 9780393321869, 0393025780, 039332186X
1016178755
Originally published under title: Loose cannons and red herrings